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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By : Mohamed Abdelaziz
Book Image

Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By: Mohamed Abdelaziz

Overview of this book

With the rising demand for and recent enhancements in IoT, a developer with sound knowledge of IoT is the need of the hour. This book will help you design, build, and operate large-scale E2E IoT solutions to transform your business and products, increase revenue, and reduce operational costs. Starting with an overview of how IoT technologies can help you solve your business problems, this book will be a useful guide to helping you implement end-to-end IoT solution architecture. You'll learn to select IoT devices; real-time operating systems; IoT Edge covering Edge location, software, and hardware; and the best IoT connectivity for your IoT solution. As you progress, you'll work with IoT device management, IoT data analytics, IoT platforms, and put these components to work as part of your IoT solution. You'll also be able to build IoT backend cloud from scratch by leveraging the modern app architecture paradigms and cloud-native technologies such as containers and microservices. Finally, you'll discover best practices for different operational excellence pillars, including high availability, resiliency, reliability, security, cost optimization, and high performance, which should be applied for large-scale production-grade IoT solutions. By the end of this IoT book, you'll be confident in designing, building, and operating IoT solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Anatomy of IoT
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Section 2: The IoT Backend (aka the IoT Cloud)
10
Section 3: IoT Application Architecture Paradigms and IoT Operational Excellence

IoT connectivity options

In the previous section, we covered lots of concepts about networking, wireless technologies, and different IoT connectivity needs, which were needed to understand the different IoT connectivity options we will mention in this section. We will not go into the low-level details of such technologies, but rather, will give a high-level overview of them.

We can classify connectivity broadly into two categories: wired and wireless connectivity. For wired connectivity, we have the options outlined next.

Classic Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)

The Ethernet protocol is a well-known and widely adapted internet protocol used in transmitting data at high speed on the LAN. This protocol covers the physical and data link layer of the OSI model. There are different kinds of Ethernet standards, and new standards provide data transfer at a rate of 10 Gbps.

The physical layer consists of cabling and devices; there are different Ethernet cables such as coaxial cables (a bit...